Quotes About Compassion

Jeffrey standing in the rain, his coat collar turned up to the cold. "There was a cat in the road. It had been hit, and it was obviously dead." Tessa was silent, waiting. "And?" she prompted. "And he picked it up and moved it out of the road so that no one else would hit it.

the easiest way for a man to get into your heart was if you imagined what he was like as a child.

I will take care of animals. I will have justice. I

I wil tell you something very important: there is value in forgiveness.

Paul still had feelings for Claire—at least inasmuch as he was capable of feeling anything. He had put the pillow under her head. He'd slid her wedding ring back on her finger. He had taken off her shoes. He had charged the Tesla. All of these things had taken time, which meant that Paul placed importance on them. Instead of rushing Lydia out the door, he had risked exposure by taking care of Claire.

Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific things they do to other human beings. Here was how a chain ripped flesh. Here was the damage wrought by kicking feet and punching fists.

You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?

Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but god forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

Sara was beginning to understand just how hard it was to be strong for everyone else around you when all you really wanted to do was curl up into a ball and be comforted yourself.

I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?

Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the HMOs only give us so much time diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Each day as we make our plan of what we need to accomplish, let us ask God to love through us. In every deed and action, every errand and responsibility, may His supernatural love be evident in all we say and do... if I am doing a plethora of great activities, but do not show love to the people around me, it is all worthless.

If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends... and so much more.

No matter how much of it I've seen, other people's grief leaves me feeling embarrassed, as if I've peeked through their bedroom windows.

Afterwards—because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy—he resolved that he would try always to be kind. It was the best he could do. It was all that he could do. And it might be love, after all.

The eat part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.

You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.